Karl Liebknecht
Karl Liebknecht (13 August 1871, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany – 15 January 1919, Berlin, Germany) was a German socialist and a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany. He is best known for his opposition to World War I in the Reichstag and his role in the Spartacist uprising of 1919. The uprising was crushed by the social democrat government and the Freikorps (paramilitary units formed of World War I veterans). Liebknecht and Luxemburg were murdered.
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“a big picture of K. Marx with an axe,
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O Karl would it were true
I’d put my saw to work for you
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—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
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—Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919)